Mean Girls Movie Analysis

Being a recent graduate from high school, all of my experiences are still fresh in my mind. I still remember all the clicks, the dances, the teachers and most of all the immature drama. Tina Fey's Mean Girls is an accurate portrayal of how rough high school can be, and more specifically how horrible teenage girls can be. Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan), a "home schooled jungle freak" recently moved from the jungles of Africa to a city in America ready to start her first year at a public high school. Cady is immediately thrown into the world of cliques, make up and girl fights. Regina George ( Rachel McAdams) plays the role of the girl everyone in high school is all too familiar with. Regina is the prettiest, richest, most popular girl in school
The beginning scenes of the movie are the best when Cady is first finding out how hurtful, backstabbing and fake girls can be. "You're like really pretty," Regina George says to Cady. "Thank you," Cady replies to Regina. "So you agree, you think you're really pretty," Regina says back to Cady. This conversation leaves Cady confused and gives her just a hint of what she has in store for herself in the future. It's the lines like these that grabs the attention of the teenagers, because they all face similar situations in there own high schools. The characters are what keep the movie realistic. Every high school has a Regina George, the group of girls who will do anything to be cool, the one gorgeous guy that every girl wants to date, the nerds that are content with their lives and the others who are just trying to survive. Every character in the film lives up to their stereotype, which is what adds a lot of the comedy to the
Cady goes from being a caring, innocent, smart girl to a selfish, self-absorbed, horrible student. Cady plays a role in the movie almost every teenager can relate to in someway. Cady's character is an example of how easily swayed teenagers can be and how much it means to be accepted in high school. Fey doesn't fail to leave out "the outcasts," Damien (Daniel Franzese) and Janis (Lizzy Caplan), who are not quite accepted but seem to be happy with their lives anyways. Damien and Janis make the audience fall in love with their relationship and has the audience rooting for them throughout the whole film. On the surface Mean Girls seems like a regular, making fun of high school movie, which in some ways it is. But, after sitting through the whole movie, it's clear that Mean Girls serves a greater purpose than just being a comedy. Underneath the movie's satiric ways Fey includes a deeper meaning, that not everyone watching may